ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,515, issued on June 23, was assigned to Impinj Inc. (Seattle).

"Command sequence for initiating inventorying" was invented by Megan Marie Brewster (Seattle), Jesse Paul Cooke (Seattle), Christopher J. Diorio (Shoreline, Wash.), Rene Dominic Martinez (Seattle) and Matthew Robshaw (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples are directed to modifying RFID tag inventorying. A sequence of consecutive inventorying commands may be used to initiate an inventory round incorporating a selection functionality for efficient inventorying of large numbers of RFID tags. A command sequence may begin with a first inventorying command followed by...